A South African Doctor in Darfur

Darfur is cursed. If it not the blistering swelter, it's the scorched earth, if it's not the hot sand at your feet , its walking along side you in a desert storm.

05 May 2008 / 3 minute read

Watching a CNN documentary on untold stories is bizarre.

14 Apr 2008 / 6 minute read

My tummy is tickled when a woman about to deliver her 8th child anyday now and the bambino found lying transversely across her uterus instead of head down, are pled with to go in the referral car f

19 Mar 2008 / 2 minute read

15 Mar 2008 / 1 minute read

The burns of a family

Night time brings it joys and its horrors. Night time in the dispensary resembles instant gravity. It’s Friday again, and I try to muster some much needed slumber.

14 Mar 2008 / 2 minute read

This past week we have had an influx of new IDPs (internally displaced persons) from north of Serif Umra, about 500 a day.

06 Mar 2008 / 2 minute read

8 patients who were admitted to our dispensary this month of February died. We admitted more than a hundred and did more than 5000 consultations .

29 Feb 2008 / 1 minute read

Cold, hard and cheerless

5 dead on arrival. All littered with gunshots. Examining a cold, hard cheerless body leaves you cold, hard and cheerless. 4 of the men shot were relatives to our guards.

28 Feb 2008 / 2 minute read

An elephant with a toothache in need of a root canal

Where does this brave reservoir of mine reside? It reveals itself like a seductive dream you can’t help feel like you remember when you awake.

27 Feb 2008 / 1 minute read